The Panel for Educational Policy will meet at Brooklyn Tech at 6 p.m. to decide on the fate of schools labeled struggling due to low standardized test scores and poor grades on city progress reports.

Officials from the United Federation of Teachers have urged parents to attend the public hearing, which the Department of Education is legally required to hold.

If the plan is approved, PS 14 and the new school, PS 78, would co-exist in the building for three years. PS 14 would stop admitting new students, and retain only third-, fourth- and fifth-graders in September.

PS 78, meanwhile, would serve pre-kindergarten through second-grade students from Stapleton starting in September. Each year, PS 14 would lose a grade and PS 78 would gain one, until 2015, when PS 14 would close and PS 78 would reach full enrollment.

PS 78 would have a new principal and many new teachers.

The Panel for Educational Policy is a 13-person board with eight mayoral appointees and five borough president appointees. It typically rubber-stamps closures and phase-outs recommended by the Department of Education.